Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

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Income inequality has grown dramatically in America since the early 1980s. This is associated with a myriad of bad things, from worse health and higher rates of violence to locking in disadvantage and limiting the ability to move up the economic ladder.
But until recently, a county with higher inequality did not necessarily have a high concentration of poverty.
A new study from the Population Reference Bureau by Beth Jarosz and Mark Mather tracks the dramatic growth in inequality and poverty across America’s 3,000-plus counties over the past two-and-a-half decades.
Today, 41 percent of U.S. counties suffer from high levels of combined poverty and income inequality, up from just 29 percent back in 1989. Worse, as the table below shows, just 28 percent of counties have low levels of poverty and low levels of inequality. In other words, more than 70 percent of counties have either high levels of inequality, high levels of poverty, or both.

(Population Reference Bureau)The chart below shows the level of inequality by various types of counties—large metropolitan counties, small and medium-sized counties, and non-metropolitan and rural counties.

(Population Reference Bureau)In 1989, 11 percent of large metropolitan counties suffered from high levels of inequality, a figure that grew to 21 percent by 2014. The combination of inequality and poverty increased from 22 percent to 46 percent of small and mid-sized counties and expanded from 35 percent to 44 percent of rural and non-metropolitan counties over that same time period.
The maps below trace the growth in poverty and inequality across U.S. counties over this time. Green represents places with low poverty and low inequality, gold represents low inequality and high poverty, blue represents low poverty and high inequality, and red indicates the disturbing one-two punch of high inequality and high poverty.

(Population Reference Bureau)Look how large sections of the map get redder over time: Today, the healthy pockets of green (representing low inequality and low poverty counties) are limited to the Midwest and Mountain regions of the country, along with parts of the Mid-Atlantic. The Sunbelt in particular has become America’s economic distress belt, with high levels of inequality and poverty.
While some commentators continue to extol the Sunbelt’s rapid growth and low housing costs, a rising number of people and places there are falling further behind both in absolute terms and compared to the rest of the country. Inequality and poverty are more than class issues: They are geographic ones as well.

OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics WORKS! But only for the SUPER RICH!A recently completed study by economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that the share of national income received by the bottom half of the US population has been reduced from 20 percent in 1980 to 12 percent, while the income of the top 1 percent has risen from 12 percent to 20 percent. In other words, some 8 percent of national income has been transferred from the bottom half of the population to the top 1 percent.

UNDER BARACK OBAMA'S OPEN BORDERS AND TWO LA RAZA SUPREMACIST SECRETARY OF LABORS, 75% OF ALL JOBS WENT TO FOREIGN BORN, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGALSConducted by Harvard economist Lawrence Katz and Princeton economist Alan Krueger, it found that 94 percent of the 10 million jobs created during the Obama administration were temporary, contract or part-time positions. The proportion of workers engaged in such jobs increased from 10.7 percent of the population to 15.8 percent. At the same time, the study found that under Obama, there were 1 million fewer workers engaged in full-time jobs than there were at the start of the recession.

THE TWISTED ROAD TO REVOLUTION CAME DOWN WALL STREET

FIRST

OBAMA –CLINTONOMICS FOR THE SUPER RICH

"Between 2002 and 2015 annual earnings for the bottom 90 percentof Americans rose by only 4.5 percent, while earnings for the top 1 percent grew by 22.7 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Under the Obama administration, more than 90 percent of

income gains since the so-called “recovery” began have gone to the top one percent."

“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. Thisis the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN THINKER.com

AMERICAN HAS FOUND MILLIONS OF JOBS FOR ILLEGALS AND BILLIONS FOR WELFARE.... BUT FOR AMERICANS... Nada!

“Behind this year’s surge is a toxic mix of cuts to social services, unemployment, hopelessness…”

The scenes of chaos and panic that played out at more than 15 shopping malls across the United States on Monday convey the tense and explosive character of social life in America at the end of 2016.

What began as one of the busiest shopping days of the year ended with large-scale evacuations, dozens of arrests, numerous injuries and entire malls on police lockdown.

Heavily armed police cleared crowds of youth at a number of shopping malls, primarily those located in working-class neighborhoods. Bystander video shows hysterical shoppers running away as police armed with assault rifles and military helmets move in to subdue large groups of youth.

Though there is no indication that the gatherings of young people were coordinated, a remarkable pattern emerges from what can be pieced together about the separate events.

In the early evening, as the malls reached peak activity, hundreds of young people began to converge in what the youth billed as “fights” in social media posts. Small scuffles broke out between individual young people, most of whom were on winter break from high school, and the crowds grew larger.

Word passed and a mood of panic set in. Rumors of shooting incidents spread rapidly. Jittery onlookers interpreted loud noises as gunshots. There were many reports of people shouting, “Gun!” People were injured as thousands sought to flee the crowded malls for the perceived safety of their cars.

At a mall in Elizabeth, New Jersey, a local news program reported “chaotic panic and everybody running all at once” after the sound of a chair slamming into the floor was mistaken for gunfire. An eight-year-old and a 12-year-old were injured in the evacuation as police surrounded and entered the mall.

In Garden City, New York, where seven people were injured, eyewitnesses described a “stampede” after dozens of people called police, erroneously believing a shooting was taking place. In Newport News, Virginia, a local news organization reported that people “were running out of the mall screaming; some people feared for their lives after they heard rumors that someone was running around the mall with a gun.”

Police cleared two malls in Memphis, Tennessee and arrested seven youth after fights and false reports of shootings. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, youth set off firecrackers and “kicked off a wave of panic,” according to a CNN report. In Brentwood, Ohio, outside Cleveland, police placed a mall on lockdown and arrested a young person “for attempting to strike an officer that was dealing with another disorderly patron.” Police used pepper spray to disperse the crowd.

Five young men between the ages of 14 and 16 from Hartford, Connecticut, a largely impoverished city, were arrested at a mall in nearby Manchester, where officers called in backup from neighboring jurisdictions and descended on the facility to break up gatherings of hundreds of youth. Similar events took place in Farmington, Connecticut; Aurora, Illinois; Fort Worth, Texas; Syracuse, New York; Monroeville, Pennsylvania; Tempe, Arizona; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Aurora, Colorado, where police reported that over 500 youth “surrounded an off-duty officer” who was attempting to detain another youth.

Meanwhile, the city of Chicago was hit by the most deadly wave of shooting violence in twenty years, with 53 wounded and 11 killed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. As DNAInfo reported, “Behind this year’s surge is a toxic mix of cuts to social services, unemployment, hopelessness…”

Just hours before the mall disorders took place, and after the devastating weekend in Chicago, Obama was interviewed on CNN by David Axelrod, his former campaign manager. Amidst much laughter and mutual flattery, Obama touted his presidential tenure and presented himself as a fighter for social justice. “I would argue that during the entire eight years that I’ve been president, that spirit of America has still been there in all sorts of ways,” he declared.

In his end-of-the-year press conference on December 16, Obama spoke of “how far we’ve come over the past eight years,” before adding that “by so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. That’s a situation that I’m proud to leave for my successor.”

The mall eruptions expose as a lie the saccharine picture of America painted by the corporate press and Obama as his administration draws to a close. That mini-riots took place in fifteen different locations located hundreds of miles from one another shows that something is profoundly wrong with America.

Monday’s free-for-all in Aurora, Colorado took place at the same mall where James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 others in July 2012. Since Obama took office, 122 people have been killed in school shootings alone. The response of the government has been two-fold: empty banalities and the militarization of the police.

Though concerns for their immediate safety may have provoked shoppers to take flight, the underlying anxieties are rooted in social relations that are dominated by the vast levels of economic inequality that loom over every aspect of life in the United States.

The outbursts of violence and fear took place against the backdrop of a holiday season ritualized by the media to conceal the brutal fact that all human relations are mediated through the buying and selling of commodities. While this process reaches a fever pitch at Christmas—the make-or-break period for retail profits—the commodification of human relations, with the general tension and frustration it produces, is essential to all social relations under capitalism.

The United States is a country dominated by a

financial oligarchy, both economically and

politically. The vast majority of the people

have no outlet for expressing their own social

interests. All of the official institutions,

including the corporate-controlled media, the

two big-business parties and the trade

unions, are dedicated to stifling social

opposition and generating higher corporate

profits.

Half of all high school students—those fifteen years of age and younger—have never lived a day when the United States was not at war. Completely abandoned by the political establishment and hostile to the wars, poverty, state surveillance and police violence that have dominated their entire conscious lives, those youth who were old enough to vote in the Democratic primary contests voted for the self-proclaimed “socialist” Bernie Sanders by a nine-to-one margin over Hillary Clinton.

In his interview with Axelrod, Obama did not even address the character of the incoming Trump administration, which is promising to be the most reactionary in US history. In three weeks, Trump and his cabal of billionaires, evangelicals, generals, fascists and close relatives will control the executive branch. The incoming administration has promised a nuclear arms race, an assault on Social Security, Medicare and public education, and the deportation of millions of immigrant workers and their families.

This holiday season, the vast majority of workers share neither the complacent and cynical optimism of Obama, nor the blind bullishness of the stock market. What took place in America’s malls on Monday provides an inkling of the profound social shocks on the horizon for 2017.

The mood that predominates in America as the year concludes is one of nervousness and frustration combined with an emerging combativeness that has yet to find a progressive political expression. What is needed is a movement of the working class to direct the coming social explosion in a revolutionary and socialist direction.

UNDER THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST OBAMA, THE MEX DRUG CARTELS NOW OPERATE BORDER TO UNDEFENDED BORDER

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States.Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”

AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY

REPORT: The assault to finish off the American middle-class is NOT over

“The report noted that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing good jobs because of local laws.”

“However, it identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so that illegals can get a job.”

TRUMPERNOMICS:

"The collection of billionaires, bankers, CEOs, generals and social arch-reactionaries that will comprise his cabinet and White House inner circle is pledged to remove all constraints on the ability of the rich to plunder American society for their own personal gain and profit."

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States.Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”New US Congress to launch assault on social programs

New US Congress to launch assault on social programs

By Patrick Martin3 January 2017

The 115th US Congress assembles in Washington today, with the ceremonial swearing in of new senators by outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, and the swearing in of the entire House of Representatives by House Speaker Paul Ryan. For the first time in a decade, the Republican Party will be in control of the House and Senate alongside a Republican president, Donald Trump, set to be inaugurated January 20.

The new government being formed in the US capital is like nothing that has ever been seen in Washington. It carries the reactionary policies of the Obama administration and previous Congresses, whether under Democratic or Republican control, to new political depths.

The incoming Congress, working with the Trump administration, is preparing an assault on whatever remains of social programs implemented under the New Deal and the Great Society. The true content of Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again” is to roll back social conditions for the working class to those that existed at the end of the 19th century--the era of child labor, unlimited working hours and robber barons.

Entire federal departments such as Education, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency have been turned over to right-wing ideologues committed to scrapping all restraints on business operations and ending all protections for workers, consumers and those who need social services.

Trump set the tone for the week at a New Year’s Eve party at his luxury estate at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where he toasted his well-heeled guests with the promise that the new Trump administration would “lower your taxes, cut regulations and repeal Obamacare,” to thunderous applause.

The taxes to be lowered will be those of the super-rich. The regulations to be abolished are those that restrict in any way the operations of big business and the financial swindling of Wall Street, at the expense of working people.

In calling for a repeal of Obamacare, Trump is demagogically appealing to broadly felt popular opposition to the program, which is seen as a boondoggle for health insurance companies, pharmaceutical conglomerates and giant hospital chains. But the actual content of his proposals will be to slash subsidies included in Obamacare as sweeteners while using revisions of the program to make substantial inroads into Medicare and Medicaid, the health insurance programs for the elderly, disabled and poor.

Despite Trump’s promises during the election campaign to replace Obamacare’s hated “individual mandate” and provisions that limit the choice of doctors and hospitals with “something great,” there is not the slightest effort in that direction. On the contrary, the Republican-controlled Congress will make the repeal of Obamacare the starting point for moves to privatize Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and other federal healthcare programs.

According to press reports Monday, the congressional Republican leadership plans to make repeal of Obamacare the first legislative action of the new session of Congress, although the timing is still uncertain because of the complexities of the law, enacted in 2010.

Obedient to the financial interests involved, the House and Senate Republican leaders aim to repeal Obamacare in a way that does not damage the profits that corporations have begun to reap from the program. This likely means that repeal of the individual mandate, which compels millions to buy private insurance or pay an increasingly stiff tax penalty, will be pushed back, lest it abruptly deprive the insurance companies of paying customers.

The planned repeal of Obamacare will proceed in several stages, beginning with passage of a budget resolution that will include so-called “reconciliation” rules that require only a 51-vote majority in the Senate, rather than the 60 votes required to overcome the expected Democratic filibuster.

Because the reconciliation process is limited to fiscal provisions that impact the budget, the actual dismantling of healthcare.gov and the federal exchange through which more than 10 million people have purchased insurance will require winning the support of at least eight Senate Democrats. The same procedure applies to rolling back the expansion of Medicaid, which extended the federal health insurance program for the poor to an additional 10 million lower-income working class families.

Congressional Republicans have vowed to combine Obamacare repeal with far-reaching attacks on both Medicaid and Medicare. Vice President Mike Pence is a leading advocate of destroying Medicaid as an entitlement program--one for which people are automatically eligible based on their income--and transforming it into a block grant to the states. This would limit the program in each state to the amount of the block grant, regardless of the number of people who apply for aid, forcing states to set up increasingly restrictive systems to ration assistance.

As for Medicare, Obamacare was actually financed in part by cuts in the program’s reimbursements to hospitals and other providers, estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. These funds, if recaptured through Obamacare repeal, will not be returned to Medicare, but will be made available instead for the real priorities of the Trump administration, increased military spending and a huge tax cut for the wealthy.

Trump’s appointment of Representative Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers Medicare and Social Security, was a clear signal that he has discarded his campaign promise that there would be no cuts in either of these critical federal programs, which underwrite health care and retirement income for more than 70 million elderly and retired workers.

Price and House Speaker Paul Ryan have long advocated privatization of Medicare, transforming it into a voucher system modeled on the Medical Savings Accounts used by corporate employers to put a lid on healthcare spending by their employees.

The other major legislative initiative—and the one that has attracted the greatest attention from corporate lobbyists and Wall Street—is the gigantic tax-cutting package, likely to be the largest in history, exceeding even the windfalls for the wealthy enacted under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Trump has promised to slash the corporate tax rate from the present (largely nominal) rate of 25 percent to only 10 percent, as well as cutting higher-end individual tax rates and abolishing the estate tax, paid only by a tiny fraction of extremely wealthy families—those like Trump himself, and his cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires.

A reactionary provision expected to be incorporated either into the Obamacare repeal or the budget and tax legislation is an outright ban on any federal funds going to Planned Parenthood, which provides health services, including cancer screening, contraception and abortion, to millions of working class women. The organization has been targeted by the Christian fundamentalist right because it is one of the few providers of abortion services in many states, and because it aggressively defends women’s rights to the full range of family planning services.

While the Trump administration and the congressional Republicans prepare an unprecedented onslaught against social programs for working people, the Democratic Party is engaged in cynical posturing to give itself a political cover for its inevitable capitulation to the demands of Wall Street and the financial oligarchy.

The incoming leader of the Senate Democrats, Charles Schumer, declared that the Democrats would fight “tooth and nail” against the overhaul of Medicare, carefully avoiding any such pledge in relation to Medicaid, the more immediate target.

Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and 2016 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to congressional Democrats calling for a “day of action” on January 15 “to vigorously oppose the Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it and throw our health care system into chaos.” Again, the Democratic politicians are deliberately downplaying of the attack on Medicaid.

Sanders has played a particularly rotten and demagogic role, issuing a series of appeals to Trump to “keep your promise” made during the campaign not to cut Medicare and Social Security.

Donna Brazile, the interim chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, made her own appeal to Trump, saying that he had an “enormous” opportunity to obtain Democratic support, and urging him “to show that he’s eager to find common ground, to meet with Democrats.”

None of these Democratic leaders will state the obvious—that Trump cares nothing for his campaign promises and is carrying out the program of the financial aristocracy, which seeks to plunder the resources of the federal Treasury to enrich themselves while building up the police and the military to lay waste to enemies both foreign and domestic. That is because the Democrats serve that same financial aristocracy and in many cases are charter members of it.

Genuine resistance to the program of Trump, the Republicans and Wall Street will come only from the working class, from the great majority of the American people, who were ignored, betrayed or misled in the course of the 2016 election campaign and now face an attack on their jobs, living standards, social benefits and democratic rights on a scale that has no parallel in history.Share on Facebook

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Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He isthe director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto and Global Research Professor at New York University. MORE

The 115th US Congress assembles in Washington
today, with the ceremonial swearing in of new senators by outgoing Vice
President Joe Biden, and the swearing in of the entire House of Representatives
by House Speaker Paul Ryan. For the first time in a decade, the Republican
Party will be in control of the House and Senate alongside a Republican
president, Donald Trump, set to be inaugurated January 20.

The new government being formed in the US
capital is like nothing that has ever been seen in Washington. It carries the
reactionary policies of the Obama administration and previous Congresses,
whether under Democratic or Republican control, to new political depths.

The incoming Congress, working with the Trump
administration, is preparing an assault on whatever remains of social programs
implemented under the New Deal and the Great Society. The true content of
Trump’s call to “Make America Great Again” is to roll back social conditions
for the working class to those that existed at the end of the 19th century--the
era of child labor, unlimited working hours and robber barons.

Entire federal departments such as Education,
Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services and the
Environmental Protection Agency have been turned over to right-wing ideologues
committed to scrapping all restraints on business operations and ending all
protections for workers, consumers and those who need social services.

Trump set the tone for the week at a New Year’s
Eve party at his luxury estate at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where he
toasted his well-heeled guests with the promise that the new Trump
administration would “lower your taxes, cut regulations and repeal Obamacare,”
to thunderous applause.

The taxes to be lowered will be those of the
super-rich. The regulations to be abolished are those that restrict in any way
the operations of big business and the financial swindling of Wall Street, at
the expense of working people.

In calling for a repeal of Obamacare, Trump is
demagogically appealing to broadly felt popular opposition to the program,
which is seen as a boondoggle for health insurance companies, pharmaceutical
conglomerates and giant hospital chains. But the actual content of his
proposals will be to slash subsidies included in Obamacare as sweeteners while
using revisions of the program to make substantial inroads into Medicare and
Medicaid, the health insurance programs for the elderly, disabled and poor.

Despite Trump’s promises during the election
campaign to replace Obamacare’s hated “individual mandate” and provisions that
limit the choice of doctors and hospitals with “something great,” there is not
the slightest effort in that direction. On the contrary, the
Republican-controlled Congress will make the repeal of Obamacare the starting
point for moves to privatize Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health
Insurance Program and other federal healthcare programs.

According to press reports Monday, the
congressional Republican leadership plans to make repeal of Obamacare the first
legislative action of the new session of Congress, although the timing is still
uncertain because of the complexities of the law, enacted in 2010.

Obedient to the financial interests involved,
the House and Senate Republican leaders aim to repeal Obamacare in a way that
does not damage the profits that corporations have begun to reap from the
program. This likely means that repeal of the individual mandate, which compels
millions to buy private insurance or pay an increasingly stiff tax penalty,
will be pushed back, lest it abruptly deprive the insurance companies of paying
customers.

The planned repeal of Obamacare will proceed in
several stages, beginning with passage of a budget resolution that will include
so-called “reconciliation” rules that require only a 51-vote majority in the
Senate, rather than the 60 votes required to overcome the expected Democratic
filibuster.

Because the reconciliation process is limited to
fiscal provisions that impact the budget, the actual dismantling of
healthcare.gov and the federal exchange through which more than 10 million
people have purchased insurance will require winning the support of at least
eight Senate Democrats. The same procedure applies to rolling back the
expansion of Medicaid, which extended the federal health insurance program for
the poor to an additional 10 million lower-income working class families.

Congressional Republicans have vowed to combine
Obamacare repeal with far-reaching attacks on both Medicaid and Medicare. Vice
President Mike Pence is a leading advocate of destroying Medicaid as an
entitlement program--one for which people are automatically eligible based on
their income--and transforming it into a block grant to the states. This would
limit the program in each state to the amount of the block grant, regardless of
the number of people who apply for aid, forcing states to set up increasingly
restrictive systems to ration assistance.

As for Medicare, Obamacare was actually financed
in part by cuts in the program’s reimbursements to hospitals and other
providers, estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. These funds, if
recaptured through Obamacare repeal, will not be returned to Medicare, but will
be made available instead for the real priorities of the Trump administration,
increased military spending and a huge tax cut for the wealthy.

Trump’s appointment of Representative Tom Price
to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers Medicare
and Social Security, was a clear signal that he has discarded his campaign
promise that there would be no cuts in either of these critical federal
programs, which underwrite health care and retirement income for more than 70
million elderly and retired workers.

Price and House Speaker Paul Ryan have long
advocated privatization of Medicare, transforming it into a voucher system
modeled on the Medical Savings Accounts used by corporate employers to put a
lid on healthcare spending by their employees.

The other major legislative initiative—and the
one that has attracted the greatest attention from corporate lobbyists and Wall
Street—is the gigantic tax-cutting package, likely to be the largest in
history, exceeding even the windfalls for the wealthy enacted under Ronald
Reagan and George W. Bush.

Trump has promised to slash the corporate tax
rate from the present (largely nominal) rate of 25 percent to only 10 percent,
as well as cutting higher-end individual tax rates and abolishing the estate
tax, paid only by a tiny fraction of extremely wealthy families—those like
Trump himself, and his cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires.

A reactionary provision expected to be
incorporated either into the Obamacare repeal or the budget and tax legislation
is an outright ban on any federal funds going to Planned Parenthood, which
provides health services, including cancer screening, contraception and
abortion, to millions of working class women. The organization has been
targeted by the Christian fundamentalist right because it is one of the few
providers of abortion services in many states, and because it aggressively
defends women’s rights to the full range of family planning services.

While the Trump administration and the
congressional Republicans prepare an unprecedented onslaught against social
programs for working people, the Democratic Party is engaged in cynical
posturing to give itself a political cover for its inevitable capitulation to
the demands of Wall Street and the financial oligarchy.

The incoming leader of the Senate Democrats,
Charles Schumer, declared that the Democrats would fight “tooth and nail”
against the overhaul of Medicare, carefully avoiding any such pledge in
relation to Medicaid, the more immediate target.

Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and
2016 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to congressional
Democrats calling for a “day of action” on January 15 “to vigorously oppose the
Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it and throw our health care system
into chaos.” Again, the Democratic politicians are deliberately downplaying of
the attack on Medicaid.

Sanders has played a particularly rotten and
demagogic role, issuing a series of appeals to Trump to “keep your promise”
made during the campaign not to cut Medicare and Social Security.

Donna Brazile, the interim chairwoman of the
Democratic National Committee, made her own appeal to Trump, saying that he had
an “enormous” opportunity to obtain Democratic support, and urging him “to show
that he’s eager to find common ground, to meet with Democrats.”

None of these Democratic leaders will state the
obvious—that Trump cares nothing for his campaign promises and is carrying out
the program of the financial aristocracy, which seeks to plunder the resources
of the federal Treasury to enrich themselves while building up the police and
the military to lay waste to enemies both foreign and domestic. That is because
the Democrats serve that same financial aristocracy and in many cases are
charter members of it.

Genuine resistance to the program of Trump, the
Republicans and Wall Street will come only from the working class, from the
great majority of the American people, who were ignored, betrayed or misled in
the course of the 2016 election campaign and now face an attack on their jobs,
living standards, social benefits and democratic rights on a scale that has no
parallel in history.